D&D Movie/TV Netflix Planning Forgotten Realms D&D TV Show With Stranger Things Producer

A Dungeons & Dragons TV show set in the Forgotten Realms is in development at Netflix. Deadline reports that the new TV series, titled The Forgotten Realms, is being produced by Shawn Levy, with Drew Crevello serving as writer and showrunner. No timeframe was given for the show's release. No cast has been announced and neither Hasbro nor Netflix has actually confirmed the project. If successful, the series could launch a wider D&D cinematic universe, long a goal for Hasbro.

Hasbro has tried unsuccessfully to get Dungeons & Dragons to television for several years. At one point, Paramount+ had a TV show in development with Rawson Marshall Thurber writing the pilot. While the project was ultimately scrapped, Crevello (who was set to be showrunner on that version of the show) stayed on the project and redeveloped it with a new concept. According to Deadline, this project is not tied to Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, although the movie is set to debut on Netflix this month and is also set in the Forgotten Realms.

Dungeons & Dragons was also featured in an episode of Secret Level, an animated series focused on various game franchises that aired on Amazon Prime. Legendary, meanwhile, is adapting Hasbro's other major fantasy franchise Magic: The Gathering into a movie and TV project.

 

[Parmandur]

Yeah I'm not sure where Netflix gets this reputation for cancelling "popular" shows. I'm sure they have cut their fair share, but streamers and Netflix specifically have perfected the art of knowing what shows are worth. It sucks when you like something that is cancelled, but that's life. Shows that cost a lot to make are obviously going to fall victim to this more often.

They have had some trouble cracking the Sci-Fi/Fantasy genre, compared to other genres, but they are still taking cracks at it.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I'm actually surprised the Office is not on this list. [edit to add: and Friends]

Netflix produced its own version of "Urban Arcana", "Bright", with Will Smith. Of course a production style "Urban Arcana" or "Dark*Matter" should be easier to be produced but also other studios could follow the same style.

Really when I start to love certain characters I don't want to watch them doing it in a bed or showing skin. Jim Henson's Labyrinth is a cult classic and it's kid-friendly.

We can't forget the adventage of D&D as franchise is if a second season is renewed we could use a different group of heroes.

Maybe the bet shouldn't be too risky, and it would be better a miniserie or with a low number of episodes.

Labyrinth as much as I love it was a box office disaster. No one is saying every fantasy movie/show should be rated R/MA, it depends on the setting & the audience that us interested in it.

 

[Parmandur]

Labyrinth as much as I love it was a box office disaster. No one is saying every fantasy movie/show should be rated R/MA, it depends on the setting & the audience that us interested in it.

Well, yes, that is why D&D and the FR are well suited for PG-13: the game and setting has a broad audience, centered in middle school and high school.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Well, yes, that is why D&D and the FR are well suited for PG-13: the game and setting has a broad audience, centered in middle school and high school.

Labyrinth is more Witchlight: Domains of Delight sort of setting then FR.

FR has nothing in common Labyrinth in terms of tone or anything else.

 

[Parmandur]

Labyrinth is more Witchlight: Domains of Delight sort of setting then FR.

FR has nothing in common Labyrinth in terms of tone or anything else.

Not sure why you mention Labyrinth, my point is that the audience for D&D and FR products is a PG-13/TV-14 audience.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Labyrinth was all about sex.

 

[Parmandur]

Labyrinth was all about sex.

Good illustration that a PG movie can have actually mature themes without "mature content".

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Labyrinth was all about sex.

Er, what how so, Jennifer Connelly was only 15!

 

[Parmandur]

Er, what how so, Jennifer Connelly was only 15!

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I really don't know how to respond to this. Have you seen Labyrinth?

Connelly is the audienxe stand-in subject in the film, not the object.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

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I really don't know how to respond to this. Have you seen Labyrinth?

Connelly is the audienxe stand-in subject in the film, not the object.

I have seen it, there is no sex in the movie at all. I can think of examples of PG-13 movies with R-Rated content, including one with piles of female nudity, but Labyrinth is not one of them.